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This interview previously published in Polish
Conflagration
Web'zine (03.04.2010). Click here to read it in Polish.
 Hi! What`s up? Are you very busy nowadays? What about promotional things
connected with "Hell Choose Me"?
Ryan "Thor" Gudmunds: Quite busy at the moment, recently off the bonecrusher European tour with
Black Dahlia Murder. And doing a cd signing for the release of our album
tomorrow.
How was 2009 for Carnifex? Which event were the most important and why?
2009 was a big year for us. Toured with a lot of awesome bands I.e. Despised
icon, Beneath The Massacre, Bleeding through ve Darkest Hour. So got to meet a lot
of awesome people and play some sick shows. I can't think of one event that was
the most important.
You had an European tour last year. Could you tell something about that? Are
you satisfied? Which countries were the best? What about gig in Poland?'
We had two Euro tours last year. The short one with Faceless and Thrash And
Burn tour where we played Poland. The Thrash And Burn tour was killer. It was a
big hangout everyday. Had some space brownies in Amsterdam. Good times.
We met in Czech Republic in Brutal Assault Festival. How do you remember
this festival?
Brutal Assault was awesome. That was the 2nd biggest crowd we've ever played
too. Good crowd response 
How extensive was this tour? Could you tell any funny story from this tour?
:)
Funny storys from that tour would be me finding my friend from California who
was backpacking in Germany and made it to the summer breeze festival. There were
25000 people there so the fact I ran into him was pretty awesome. So then we got
drunk
 You played modern type of music - deathcore. Are you rather part of metal or
hardcore scene? What do you think about popularity of this type of music? Why
this situation happened? What`s wrong and good sides of that?
Um. So deathcore. We are a death metal band first and foremost and we enjoy
breakdowns so watever that makes us cool. We aren't similiar to hardcore or
metal core just death metal.
Why the name of a band is Carnifex? Who did imagine that? What does it mean?
It`s probably from Latina, am I right?
Carnifex is Latin for the word executioner.
Maybe we will talk about your new album. Compared to previous albums where do
you think the biggest difference in the music is nowadays?
Our latest album "hell chose me" is a lot more thought out than our previous
albums. We've been writing it for over a year wen we recorded it. It's just more
grown up.
You mix many different genres together - does this reflect your personal
taste? Could you say something about who has inspired you?
We mix a lot of different styles of metal and death metal. I listen to a lot
of stuff but death metal primarily.
 I saw someone of you has a "straight edge" tattoo. What do you think about
this things? What about animal liberation? Any vegetarians/vegans in the band?
There are two members with straight edge tattoos and they'r edge and have
been for a long time. We have one vegetarian but he's not An animal liberation
kinda guy. He's a chiller
Do you take care of things like t-shirt designs, booking shows and that sort
of things yourselves or is it something that label handles? Have you put big
weight on merchandise? What do you think about this "fashioncore", when people
would like to collecting "cool" band-clothes than listening to this music, going
for a concerts?
Our label handles none of that. It is all us making merch. We choose designs
that we would wear. We seek out sick artists to bring the best merch to our fans.
Fuck fashioncore kids.
What do you feel when you see people who tattoes logo of your band? Are you
proud? Do you understand these people?
I'm blown away everytime I see someone with a carnifex tattoo. It's pretty
crazy to think somebody like your band that much
 You`re quite young. What about your ages? Is Carnifex`s carrer your making
dreams? When you're not touring and playing music what do you then do for a
living?
I don't think we are that young. Our ages vary a bit. I'm the youngest at
23. Our oldest is 30 but I won't tell which member that is. Actually our merch
guy Dustin is 22 so I guess he's the youngest. This is all I do. I don't have
any other jobs or anything. We tour almost full time and it's awesome
Ok, we have to end this interview. I hope it wasn`t boring. What are your
goals from now on?
My only other goal is to do a world tour and then to become a tattoo artist
Thanx a lot for interview! Wanna add something for polish brutal music fans?
Polish fans. Stay brutal and we will see you soon!!!
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